Exercising apparatus for babies.



No. 733,921. j PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

w. P. ABELL.

EXEROISING APPARATUS FOR BABIES. 7

APPLICATION FILED Mn. 25, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented February 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

EXERCISING APPARATUS FOR BABIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 783,921, datedFebruary 28, 1905.

Application filed March 25, 1904:. Serial No. 200,068.

The object of this invention is to provide a rocking horse which swings,and thus causes no noise and no vibration and also does away with thedanger of toes and fingers being squashed under the old-fashionedrockers.

Furthermore, this can be fixed to any beam or in any doorway, and,furthermore, can be converted into a horizontal bar. To attain this end,I construct a horses head fixed to a seat. This seat I fix to a poleabout three feet long, and on the top end of this pole I lix a ferrulehaving an eye on each side. Through each of these eyes I thread a chainhaving an S-hook at each end of each said chain. One end of the chain Ipass through the l1ooks,secured to the top of a doorway or a beam. Iattain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is the elevation showing my invention. Fig.2 is plan of same. Fig. 3 shows my invention arranged as a horizontalbar.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, I provide a horses head A, secured to ashaft B. To the top end of said shaft B, I fix a double-eyed ferrule C,the object of this double eye C be ing to prevent the horse twistingwhen swinging, (a very important part of my invention.) Through thisferrule C, I thread two chains D D, each chain having S-hooks E at eachend, thereby enabling the length of the chains to be adjusted. Thesechains D D are hooked onto or passed through the two hooks F, the horsethus swinging at an arch with the hooks F as centers. The child sits onthe seat when using the apparatus for a rocking horse or swing, standson the seat when using it as a flexor-developer for strengthening thelegs, and replaces the double-eyed ferrule C with the horizontal bar Gwhen using the apparatus as a horizontal bar.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The eyed socket C, fixed to the end of a pole B, chains E, hooks F,flanged ferrule .l-I, fixed at the end of said pole B and horses head Aand seat secured to a pole B and said flanged ferrule C when combinedand arranged and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM PRICE ABELL.

Witnesses:

CHAs. N. DANIELS, LUTHER J. PARR.

